73trust / 100

Read

by how.is in Search & web

x402 APIPassing, checked 3 h ago

Read a web page as clean markdown, with a safety verdict attached: robots.txt honored for your agent, risky sites flagged as untrusted, optional screenshot.

POST
https://how.is/v1/read
Price
$0.005
per call in USDC
Uptime
81.8%
last 30 days
Response time
297 ms
1.1 s slowest 5%
Last check
Passed
3 h ago, next any minute now

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How to call it

POST https://how.is/v1/read

Each call costs $0.005 in USDC on Base, paid with the request over x402.

Run a free test callOne unpaid request, the way an agent sends it. You see the payment challenge it gets back. Nothing is charged.

Example request

From the listing.

POST https://how.is/v1/read
content-type: application/json

{
  "url": "https://github.com"
}

Parameters

ParameterTypeRequiredDescription
screenshotbooleanNoAlso return a 1280x800 JPEG of the page
uastringNoThe user agent you will fetch with; robots.txt and our bot policy are judged for it. Defaults to the User-Agent of this request.
urlstring (uri)YesThe http(s) page to read

Example response

The provider's example. We can't check it without paying.

{
  "data": {
    "_shape": "data: markdown, title, description, lang, canonical, final_url, http_status, content_type, words, truncated, untrusted_content, preflight{verdict, safe_to, reasons, ...}, screenshot{image_base64, ...} when asked."
  },
  "receipt": {
    "charge_usd": 0.005,
    "rail": "x402",
    "settlement_tx": "0x…",
    "tool": "read"
  },
  "result": "Read a page (with verdict) for the requested subject"
}

Call it from code

The curl command shows the payment challenge. The JavaScript and Python versions pay and call, and never pay more than $0.005.

curl: see the payment challenge
# bash or zsh: see the payment challenge. Nothing is charged.
curl -sS -g -i -X POST 'https://how.is/v1/read' \
  -H 'content-type: application/json' \
  --data-raw '{"url":"https://github.com"}'

# x402 v2 sends the challenge base64-encoded in the PAYMENT-REQUIRED header (v1 sends it in the body).
# To read the header:
curl -sS -g -o /dev/null -D - -X POST 'https://how.is/v1/read' \
  -H 'content-type: application/json' \
  --data-raw '{"url":"https://github.com"}' \
  | grep -i '^payment-required:' | cut -d' ' -f2 | tr -d '\r' | base64 --decode
JavaScript: pay and call
// npm i @x402/fetch @x402/evm viem
import { wrapFetchWithPayment, x402Client } from "@x402/fetch";
import { registerExactEvmScheme } from "@x402/evm/exact/client";
import { privateKeyToAccount } from "viem/accounts";

// Pays at most $0.005 per call.
const client = new x402Client().setSpendControls({ maxAmountPerPayment: "$0.005" });
registerExactEvmScheme(client, { signer: privateKeyToAccount(process.env.EVM_PRIVATE_KEY) });
const pay = wrapFetchWithPayment(fetch, client);

// Not sure it's safe to pay? ToolVet checks it first for $0.005. Pay for that from a separate
// client: this one is capped at $0.005 per payment. GET https://toolvet.app/api/v1/check?url=https%3A%2F%2Fhow.is%2Fv1%2Fread&method=POST
const res = await pay("https://how.is/v1/read", {
  method: "POST",
  headers: { "content-type": "application/json" },
  body: JSON.stringify({
    "url": "https://github.com"
  }),
});
console.log(res.status, await res.text());
Python: pay and call
# pip install "x402[requests,evm]"
import os
from eth_account import Account
from x402 import x402ClientSync
from x402.http.clients import x402_requests
from x402.mechanisms.evm import EthAccountSigner
from x402.mechanisms.evm.exact.register import register_exact_evm_client

# Pays at most $0.005 per call.
client = x402ClientSync().set_spend_controls({"max_amount_per_payment": "$0.005"})
register_exact_evm_client(client, EthAccountSigner(Account.from_key(os.environ["EVM_PRIVATE_KEY"])))

with x402_requests(client) as session:
    res = session.post(
        "https://how.is/v1/read",
        json={
            "url": "https://github.com",
        },
    )
    print(res.status_code, res.text)

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